Our Aberdeen: Addison act paved way for new city homes
Our Aberdeen: Addison act paved way for new city homes © Margaret Sweetnam This week Aberdeen City Council announced a planning application has been submitted for 99 homes to be built in Kincorth as part of a major project delivering 2,000 new council houses across the city. It’s now more than 100 years since the passing of the Housing and Town Planning Act, also known as the Addison Act, which was conceived as a way of providing “homes fit for heroes” in the aftermath of the First World War. Subsequent Housing Acts in 1924 and 1930 encouraged further housing schemes by local authoriti...
Source: eveningexpress.co.uk